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Windows 7: BSOD on HP DV6

My laptop got an actually blue BSOD today, so I figured it was time to see if anyone could figure out what's going on.

It tends to shut down of its own volition, I think generally when it gets too hot/too much is going on, but then...sometimes it doesn't seem like what I'm doing is at all intensive. The latest happened with just Firefox and Word open.
I've had a seemingly similar issue a few times before (it began maybe two months ago, I've only had the laptop since February '13.

I thought it might be a heating issue, but this last time, it was barely running warm. However, about two errors ago (three weeks-ish), I got a message on the boot screen saying that a fan had malfunctioned. I used compressed air, and indeed the computer started to run less warmly, but the errors haven't stopped, so...

Oh, and sometimes it beeps. *not* upon boot, just in the middle of use. I might be online or playing a game (Dragon Age:Origins level graphics, usually), and then it'l beep do a high pitched beep followed by a lower pitched one, both pretty quiet. The beeping has been happening for around...4 or 5 months? It's not constant, but at its peak happened 3-5x/day, and sometimes didn't happen for about two weeks.

The SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker scans the integrity of all protected Windows 7 system files and replaces incorrect corrupted, changed/modified, or damaged versions with the correct versions if possible. If you have modified your system files as in theming explorer/system files, running sfc /scannow will revert the system files to it's default state.

Run this on your Hard Drive(s). This will show you how to run Check Disk or chkdsk in Windows 7 to check a selected hard disk for file system errors and bad sectors on it. With both boxes checked for all HDDs and with Automatically fix file system errors. Post back your logs for the checks after finding them using Check Disk (chkdsk) - Read Event Viewer Log